136 pages : 28 cm

"Focusing on the intersections between textiles and architectural design, this title communicates the full range of possibilities for a multidisciplinary design hybrid. It examines the generative set of concepts, forms, patterns, materials, processes, technologies and practices that are driving this cross-fertilisation in contemporary urban and architectural design. Architextiles represents a transition stage in the reorientation of spatial design towards a more networked, dynamic, interactive, multifunctional and communicative state. The paradigms of fashion and textile design, with their unique, accelerated aesthetics and ability to embody a burgeoning, composite and complex range of properties such as lightness, flow, flexibility, surface, complexity and movement have a natural affinity with architecture's shifts towards a more liquid state. The preoccupation with textiles in architecture challenges traditional perceptions and practices in interior, architectural, urban, landscape and fashion design. Interweaving new designs and speculative projects for the future, Architextiles, brings together architects, designers, engineers, technologists, theorists and materials researchers to unravel these new methodologies of fabricating space. It features interviews with Will Alsop, Dominique Perrault and Lars Spuybroek, as well as contributions from Nigel Coates, Robert Kronenburg, Matilda McQuaid, Dagmar Richter, Peter Testa and Bradley Quinn. It also emcompasses new projects and writings from young and emerging designers and theorists."--Jacket

"November/December 2006."

Editorial / Helen Castle -- Introduction: Architecture + textiles = architextiles / Mark Garcia -- Prologue for a history and theory of architextiles / Mark Garcia -- National Museum of Textile Costume, Doha, Qatar / Kathryn Findlay -- Textiles in architecture / Bradley Quinn -- The Straw House and Quilted Office, 9-10 Stock Orchard Street, Islington, London / Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth -- Impending landscapes of the architextile city: an interview with Dominique Perrault / Mark Garcia -- Blood Sense Tower, Deptford, London / Sally Quinn -- 'Otherworldliness': the pull of black velvet, latex, tights, quilts, tablecloths and frocks: an interview with Will Alsop / Mark Garcia -- Extreme networks / Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser -- Skin/weave/pattern / Nigel Coates -- Holon Design Museum, Israel / Ron Arad -- Lister Mills, Bradford / David Morley and Danielle Tinero -- Textile tectonics: an interview with Lars Spuybroek / Marcia Ludovica Tramontin -- Thomas More Council Estate, London: a re-fabricated picturesque landscape / Charlie de Bono -- The big air world: from 'cotton' to 'air' / VA Watson -- Camouflage as aesthetic sustainability / Dagmar Richter -- The great veil of the central axis / Massimiliano Kuksas -- Parametric matter / Yusuke Obuchi, Theodore Spyropoulos and Tom Verebes -- The notion of the membrane and the aesthetics of trans-textuality / Sonia Sarkissian -- Fabric architecture and flexible design / Robert Kronenburg -- Architextiles Royal College of Art Departments of Architecture and Textiles / Anne Toomey -- Woven surface and form / Tristan Simmonds, Martin Self and Daniel Bosia -- Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London / Christopher Nash -- Nirah, Bedford, UK / Jolyon Brewis -- Tambabox, Tambacounda, Senegal / Iván Juárez and Patricia Meneses -- Tensile structure design: an engineer's perspective / David Wakefield -- Y-knots, mile end and the Lower Lee Valley, East London / Mark Garcia and Jonathan Goslan -- An embellishment: purdah / Jane Rendell -- Tectonics and textiles / Matilda McQuaid -- Textiles for 21st-century living / Marie O'Mahony -- Tate in space / Opher Elia-Shaul and Danielle Tinero -- Bio-Tissue Hotel / Stefanie Surjo

Includes bibliographical references

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